The Genius of Photography ep1 pt6

"anyone who took a picture not in focus should be court marshalled". I agree in some aspects such as those idiots with their stupid myspace photos that are blurry as h-e-double hockey sticks and the caption reads "aren't I cute?" and you can't even see them. What total IDIOTS.

The Genius of Photography ep1 pt4

When I first saw that iron clamp thing I figured it was to keep your head still, but I still had doubts, that's crazy that it is though. It makes sense though cause those cameras have long shutter speeds so it is crucial to keep still otherwise the picture would turn out blurry.

I like how they started shooting through the old camera too and the guy is upside down and there is a slight vingette.


I like how "Nadar" took pictures of artists "authentically" without columns, without dressing them up, just plain and simple portraits. How he portrays what profession the artist is by pure personality that conveys themselves.

"You see the world as fragments, not as perfect wholes". To me photography is like an extension of your eye, you can't see the whole world at once, you see bits and pieces and any given time. Depending on the way you turn your head alters what is and is not in your line of vision anymore, much like a viewfinder of a camera.

click! photography changes who we are

"Isn't it a shame that people can live their lives, die and all it says is unidenified", this quote in some form or another has crossed my mind. Like in pictures from war when there are dead soliders, it's such a shame that those soliders go to war to protect our rights and all it says is unidentified. I agree with the man talking in the video that it makes me wonder more about the people in the photo.

click! photography changes what we do

I really like Eleanor Antin's pictures, the ones with all the boots everywhere, because with the title a series of 51 postcards mailed to hundreds of recipients around the world the shots make me think that she may have sent the pictures out as the postcards to display places that people don't normally send pictures/postcards back from. For example the one that looks like it is just outside of a movie theater with a couple of people walking outside.

click! photography changes everything introduction

"photography gets used by different people, at different time for different reasons", I like this quote cause whether you are using photography for a career or as a hobby everyone can use it. Household moms may use it to document their children's and family's lives, where as an archeaologist may use it to document his findings.